Meike 6-11mm F/3.5 Fisheye SLR
Fisheye lens • Digital era • Discontinued
- Announced:
- · September 2018
- Production status:
- ● Discontinued
- Country of design:
- · PRC (People's Republic of China)
- Original name:
- · MEIKE FISHEYE ZOOM LENS 6-11mm 1:3.5
- Class:
- · Slow APS-C-format fisheye lens
Abbreviations
| FISHEYE | An ultra-wide angle lens with strong uncorrected barrel distortion and extreme angle of view. |
Specification
| Optical design: | |
| APS-C | |
| 6mm - 11mm [1.8X zoom ratio] | |
| F/3.5 across the focal length range | |
| 11 elements in 8 groups | |
| Canon EF [44mm] | |
| Nikon F [46.5mm] | |
| 180° @ 6mm - 180° @ 11mm | |
| Diaphragm mechanism: | |
Diaphragm type: | Manual |
Aperture control: | Aperture ring |
| 11 (eleven) | |
| Zooming: | |
Zoom mechanism: | Manual |
Zoom control: | Zoom ring |
Zoom type: | Rotary |
Zooming method: | Internal zooming |
| Focusing: | |
| 0.15m @ 6mm | |
| 0.25m @ 11mm | |
| <No data> | |
Focusing modes: | Manual focus only |
Manual focus control: | Focusing ring |
| Physical characteristics: | |
| 540g (mount not specified) | |
| ⌀64×94mm (mount not specified) | |
| - | |
| - | |
| Accessories: | |
| Removable front filters are not accepted | |
| MK-EW55 - Bayonet-type petal-shaped | |
| Not available |
Source of data
- Manufacturer's technical data.
Typical characteristics of fisheye lenses
- Extreme angle of view (at least 180° diagonally);
- Circular types (the image circle of the lens is inscribed in the image frame) or diagonal types (cover the entire image frame);
- Usually of equidistant projection type, with the distance from the picture center to any given point always proportional to the angle from the optical axis to that point;
- Huge barrel distortion;
- Short closest focusing distance (0.20 - 0.30m with 35mm full-frame prime lenses);
- Very large depth of field, eliminating the need for autofocus or precise manual focusing;
- Due to the extreme angle of view and convex front element, front filters cannot be used;
- Often equipped with a filter turret with swivel-mounted filters;
- Often come with a small, built-in petal-shaped lens hood (*).
(*) Some APS-C models have a detachable lens hood, which allows such lenses to be used on 35mm full-frame cameras as circular fisheyes.
From the editor
A large and heavy two-in-one zoom lens: nearly circular fisheye at focal length of 6mm and an ultra-wide angle lens at focal length of 11mm. Despite the very wide field of view, a petal-shaped lens hood is included. At focal length of 6mm, however, it does get into the frame.
Please note that this lens was also released for mirrorless camera mounts. We decided to record it separately in our database.